What is multi-tasking, multi-programming,multi-threading?

Answer Posted / sharad bhaskar

Multithreading:Take an example of a download process,we are
doing five downloads at once.Every download is a process,
the processor executes(downloads) each small part of every
process one-by-one.This is an example of multithreading.If
you are pausing a download, the execution of threads for
that process will stop.

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